Act for ad CHAP. XX. An act for reviving and continuing the act for adjusting claims for property impressed or taken for public service. 1. WHEREAS the act of assembly, passed in the Fisting claims year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, infor property titled "An act for adjusting claims for property imimpressed fr pressed or taken for public service," which has been continued by several subsequent acts, expired on the and continu- first day of September last, and it is expedient that the same should be revived and continued: public ser vice revived II. Be it therefore enacted, That the said recited act shall be revived, and continue and be in force until the first day of September next. III. And be it further enacted, That the auditors shall issue certificates on claims audited by the county courts since the first day of September last, in like manner as if the before recited act had not expired. Further time allowed to settle claims of officers, soldiers and marines, for pay and de. preciation. CHAP. XXI. An act for giving further time to of ficers, soldiers, sailors, and marines, to settle their arrears of pay and depreciation, with the auditor of public accounts. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall and may be be lawful for the auditor of public accounts, and he is hereby required, to liquidate all just claims of officers, soldiers, sailors, and marines, and of those of the staff department, who are entitled by law to arrears of pay and depreciation, that shall be pre sented to him on or before the first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and to grant certificates as usual for what shall be due thereon; the said claims having been first allowed by the commissioner or commissioners appointed to examine the same. Provided always, That application for such certificates be made by the claimant in person, or by his written order, assignment, or his legal representative. CHAP. XXII An act concerning the claims to full pay of certain officers, and to half pay of the widows and orphans of officers that died in the service. ows and or I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the Full pay to auditor of public accounts is hereby authorised and re- certain offi quired to issue warrants to widows and orphans, enti- cers and half tled thereto under the act of assembly passed in Octo- pay to widber session, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, phons directfor making good the future pay of the army, and for ed other purposes; any law to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas by the construction of an act, intituled "An act to amend the act concerning pensioners,' a few meritorious disabled officers, in indigent circumstances, who, on full proof of their merits and necessities, had been by a preceding assembly directed to receive full pay for life, are deprived thereof; II. Be it therefore enacted, That so much of the said recited act as is construed to deprive those officers, who were before entitled to full pay, from receiving the same, shall be and is hereby repealed. Rule in issuing warrants CHAP. XXIII. An act to amend the act, intituled An act to authorise the auditors to grant new warrants and certificates in certain cases. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the auditor of accounts shall not hereafter issue warrants for interest for interest on any certificates, on which duplicates have been issued agreeable to law; but the auditor, when the original certificates are presented for warrants, shall retain the same in his office. on certifi cates. Auditor no 11. And be it further enacted, That hereafter no longer to re- warrants or certificates shall be granted by the audinew lost cer- tor in lieu of such as may have been lost or destroyed, tificates. under the act to authorize the auditors to grant new warrants and certificates in certain cases, which was passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. Commission. CHAP. XXIV. An act for ascertaining and liquidating the claims of the sufferers by the destruction of tobacco at Byrd's ware-houses, and to suspend the rebuilding of the said ware-houses. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That ers to liqui- Nathaniel Wilkinson, Foster Webb, junior, John Hardate claims vie, Daniel Lawrence Hylton, John Marshall, and for tobacco James Buchanan, gentlemen, be, and they are hereby destroyed by burning appointed commissioners, to ascertain and liquidate Byrd's ware- the claims of the proprietors of tobacco lately destroyhouses. ed by the burning of Byrd's warehouses, in the city of Richmond, and the said commissioners, or any three of them, are hereby empowered to meet at such time and place as they shall see fit, (public notice thereof having been given previously for four weeks in the Virginia Gazette) to ascertain and settle the accounts of all claimants under this act; and they shall be further authorised to examine any person or persons they shall think necessary for their information in all things relative to the said claims, and to administer an oath or affirmation, as the case may require, to any person or persons for the better discovering the true quantity of the tobacco so destroyed. II. And be it further enacted, That in stating the said accounts, the commissioners, or any three of them, shall and they are hereby directed and required, to express the value of the tobacco at the time it was destroyed, specifying the quantity of crop and transfer tobacco separately; which accounts the said commissioners, or any three of them, shall return under their hands and seals to the next session of the general assembly. III. And be it further enacted, That for the ease and convenience of the commissioners in this act mentioned, they are hereby empowered to appoint a clerk, who shall keep a record of their proceedings, to be laid before the next session of the general assembly. IV. And be it further enacted, That the re-building of Byrd's warehouses shall be suspended until the end of the next session of general assembly. And whereas it is represented to the general assembly, that the loss of Byrd's warehouses will augment the duty of the inspectors at Shockoe and Rockett's, so much as to render them inadequate thereto: For remedy whereof, V. Be it enacted, That one of the inspectors at Byrd's warehouses shall attend at Shockoe, and the other at Rockett's Inspections, for the present year, as assistant inspectors to those already commissioned at the said warehouses respectively, for which they shall be allowed the same salaries heretofore given them by law. Commission. subscriptions CHAP. XXV. An act for appointing commissioners to receive subscriptions for the purpose of opening a road from the falls of the Great Kanawa to Lexington, in Fayette county. 1. WHEREAS the opening a more direct and reaers to receive dy communication with the Kentucky district, will be for opening a greatly facilitated, and the distance to that country road from the rendered shorter and safer, by establishing a public road from the falls of the Great Kanawa to the town of Lexington, in the county of Fayette, and it is represented that such a road may be cut and maintained by private subscription: falts of the Great Kana. wa to Lex ington in Kentucky. II. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That John Marshall, jun. Henry Banks, Alexander St. Clair, Robert Gamble, John Stuart, William Renick, William Morris, James Armstrong, Joseph Crocket. James Wilkison, Edmund Lyne, James Garrard, Isaac Cox, Andrew Hynes, John Jouett, Gabriel Madison, John Campbell, Richard Terrel, George Adams, Green Clay, Benjamin Logan, Isaac Shelby, and George Clendinen, gentlemen, be appointed commissioners, who are severally authorised and empowered to open and receive subscriptions for that purpose. Each of the said commissioners, before he enters upon the duty assigned him, shall enter into bond with good security, payable to the governor and his successors, in a reasonable penalty, conditioned for the faithful execution of his office, to be recorded in the court of the county in which he may reside, and moreover shall take an oath before such court to the like effect; a certificate of which oath taken, and bond given, under the hand of the clerk, shall be shewn to every subscriber. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or a majority of them, to contract with such and so many proper persons to survey, mark, clear and open the said road, as to them shall seem fit; and for that purpose to apply the subscriptions taken, as far as the same will go, taking bond with good security from the undertaker for the performance of their trust. The said com |